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20 million (as of 2020) G2A.COM Limited (commonly referred to as G2A) is a digital marketplace headquartered in the Netherlands, [1] [2] with offices in Poland and Hong Kong. [3] [4] The site operates in the resale of gaming products by the use of redemption keys. Other items sold on the site are software, prepaid activation codes, electronics ...
The Day of the Azores, designated to the Dia da Região Autónoma dos Açores ( Day of the Autonomous Region of the Azores ), corresponds to the Monday of the Holy Spirit, held annually on 16 May. [2] It was legislated by the government of Mota Amaral on 21 August 1980, under Regional Decree 13/89/A. [1] At the original celebrations, apart from ...
The Casa dos Bicos ( Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈkazɐ ðuʒ ˈβikuʃ]; "House of the Beaks/Spikes") is a historical house in the civil parish of Santa Maria Maior, in the Portuguese municipality of Lisbon. The house, built in the early 16th century in the Alfama neighbourhood, has a curious façade of spikes, influenced by Italian ...
The Direção-Geral do Património Cultural (DGPC) (Directorate-General for Cultural Heritage), formerly the Instituto de Gestão do Património Arquitectónico e Arqueológico (IGESPAR) (Institute for the Management of Architectural and Archaeological Heritage) and Instituto Português do Património Arquitetónico (IPPAR (Portuguese Institute for Architectural Heritage), is a general ...
Title page of Garcia de Orta's Colóquios first edition, from the first printing press in India at Saint Paul's College, Goa, on 10 April 1563, by João de Endem. Colloquies on the Simples and Drugs of India (Portuguese: Colóquios dos Simples e Drogas e Coisas Medicinais da Índia) is a work of great originality published in Goa on 10 April 1563 by Garcia de Orta, a Portuguese Jewish ...
Created by. D. Afonso Henriques. Peerage. Peerage of Portugal. First holder. Trastamiro Aboazar. Remainder to. semi-salic law. The Maia family was an old and powerful Portuguese noble family with its origins dating back to the 10th century.
The first House of the Twenty-Four, in Lisbon, was established in 1383 by John, Master of Aviz. Similar corporations were established in other cities and towns in the country and elsewhere in the Portuguese Empire. Houses of the Twenty-Four were created in Coimbra and in Évora in 1459; in Funchal in 1483; in Porto in 1518; in Angra, probably ...
The Residence of the Maias ( Portuguese: Casa dos Ferrazes Bravos/Casa dos Maias ), is a 16th century building situated in the Portuguese civil parish of Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória, municipality of Porto, the district of the same name . Wikimedia Commons has media related to Casa dos Maias.